Tenable Announces the Release of Nessus 3.0.5

January 17, 2007 · Columbia, MD

Tenable Network Security, Inc. is proud to announce the availability of Nessus 3.0.5 for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD. This release contains the following fixes and enhancements:

  • Faster startup time
  • Improved the performance of the SYN port scanner
  • Various minor bug fixes in the nasl engine
  • Better chasing of zombie processes

Mac OS X specific changes:

  • Fixed a memory leak in the client
  • Fixed a bug in the processing of the plugin preferences

Windows specific changes:

  • Improved Vista compatibility